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Book Review of Nineteen Minutes

Nineteen Minutes
Nineteen Minutes
Author: Jodi Picoult
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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There's a lot of good stuff in this book, but it has it's flaws. So many characters are introduced in the beginning chapters that I stopped even trying to keep track of them all. The scenes flip back and forth in time often enough that you're not sure at the beginning of each one whether you're continuing the linear timeline from the last scene or if you've jumped again. She makes the shooter such a sympathetic character that I started feeling like I was being beaten over the head with it, which only reinforces my feeling that this 400 page book could have been 100 pages shorter, since I was often feeling like I wanted the story to move faster.

I much prefer Frank Turner Hollon's Blood and Circumstances.